Then why not rather presuppose there be Bodies with such a nature furnished forth That, if perchance they have created fire, Can still (by virtue of a few withdrawn, Or added few, and motion and order changed) — from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus
her conduct from censure she
Yet as she was convinced that Marianne's affection for Willoughby, could leave no hope of Colonel Brandon's success, whatever the event of that affection might be, and at the same time wished to shield her conduct from censure, she thought it most prudent and kind, after some consideration, to say more than she really knew or believed. — from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
C H A P. XLIX A NY man, Madam, reasoning upwards, and observing the prodigious suffusion of blood in my father’s countenance,—by means of which (as all the blood in his body seemed to rush into his face, as I told you) he must have reddened, pictorically and scientifically speaking, six whole tints and a half, if not a full octave above his natural colour:—any man, Madam, but my uncle Toby, who had observed this, together with the violent knitting of my father’s brows, and the extravagant contortion of his body during the whole affair,—would have concluded my father in a rage; and taking that for granted,—had 289 he been a lover of such kind of concord as arises from two such instruments being put in exact tune,—he would instantly have skrew’d up his, to the same pitch;—and then the devil and all had broke loose—the whole piece, Madam, must have been played off like the sixth of Avison Scarlatti— con furia, —like mad.—Grant me patience!——What has con furia, —— con strepito, ——or any other hurly burly whatever to do with harmony? — from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
He was hardly what Dr. Johnson would have called a "clubable" man, yet he enjoyed the meetings in his still way, or he would never have come from Concord so regularly to attend them. — from Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
his course for Cape St
the October 14, 1799, when commanding the frigate Alcmene , on a cruise off the Spanish coast, he shaped his course for Cape St. Vincent, and was running to the southward, in the latitude of Cape Finisterre. — from Names: and Their Meaning; A Book for the Curious by Leopold Wagner
He had employed all his own personal resources in that venture, and though the rigid had performed remarkably, even his closest friends could see nothing but failure in further attempts to establish the new science. — from Zeppelin: The Story of a Great Achievement by Harry Vissering
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